Royal Touch in Early Modern England
Guérison
Reines
Medicine, great britain
Touch
Rois et souverains
Rites et cérémonies
Healing
Rites and ceremonies
Renaissance
Queens
Traitement
Aspect religieux
Kings and rulers
Treatment
Religious aspects
History
The royal touch was the religious healing ceremony at which the monarch stroked the sores on the face and necks of people who had scrofula in order to heal them in imitation of Christ. The rite was practised by all the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns apart from William III, reaching its zenith during th…
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